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FIFA Director Of TV Niclas Ericson Leaves As Exodus Continues

FIFA’s "top media dealmaker has agreed to leave" the organization, two weeks after the exit of long-term Marketing Dir Thierry Weil, according to Tariq Panja of BLOOMBERG. Niclas Ericson, FIFA’s director of TV, will leave at the end of the year, according to a FIFA spokesperson. The spokesperson had "no further comment late Wednesday." The personnel moves mark a "continued erosion of FIFA’s old guard, longtime employees who worked closely during the scandal-plagued reign" of former President Sepp Blatter. The divisions led by Weil and Ericson "were responsible for almost all of FIFA’s revenue." FIFA made $2.4B from the sale of TV rights to the last World Cup in Brazil, and $1.6B came from marketing rights to the tournament held in '14 (BLOOMBERG, 10/19).

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